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| There are truths on this side of the Pyranees, which are falsehoods on the other. ~ Blaise Pascal |
| If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point. ~ Antonio Porchia, |
| In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll |
| Advice to children crossing the street: damn the lights. Watch the cars. The lights ain’t never killed nobody. ~ Moms Mabley |
| The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. ~ H.L. Mencken, |
| Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. ~ Charles Simic |
| The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. ~ Ivy Baker Priest |
| Won’t you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you. ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
| People who look through keyholes are apt to get the idea that most things are keyhole shaped. ~ Author Unknown |
| I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes. ~ Antonio Porchia, |
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| No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye. ~ Elizabeth Bowen, |
| Sin is geographical. ~ Bertrand Russell |
| I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the years’. ~ Henry Moore |
| Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure. ~ Antonio Porchia, |
| Someone said, "The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did." Precisely, and they are that which we know. ~ T.S. Eliot |
| Immorality: The morality of those who are having a better time. ~ H.L. Mencken |
| A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works. ~ Bill Vaughan |
| In order for something to become clean, something else must become dirty. ~ Imbesi’s Conservation of Filth Law |
| If you’re being run out of town, get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade. ~ Author Unknown |
| Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it. ~ Robert Brault |
| Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. ~ George Santayana |
| We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions. ~ Ian Percy |
| The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. ~ Henry Miller |
| All honor’s wounds are self-inflicted. ~ Andrew Carnegie |
| The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he’s on. ~ Joseph Heller, |
| There’s no such thing as bragging. You’re either lying or telling the truth. ~ Al Oliver |
| I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet. ~ Denis Waitely |
| A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye. ~ Samuel Grafton |
| Is the glass half empty, half full, or twice as large as it needs to be? ~ Author Unknown |
| If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. ~ Abraham Maslow |